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		<title>Best maps of Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best driving map for planning and taking an Oregon vacation is the one by Bill Sullivan and David Imus of Eugene. The map is hand drawn, easy to read and even rather beautiful in a functional way. It contains the entire state on one single side of a large sheet. Sullivan, who has made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best travel journal for your trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Without a doubt, the maker of the best notebooks in the world is Moleskine.
It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;mo-leh-SKEE-na&#8221; and has more snob appeal than we like to admit to, but the company makes a good product; the book has an interesting literary and artistic history &#8212; think names like Vincent Van Gogh &#8212; some of which could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interstate 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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I-5, like much of the Interstate system, is low on charm and high on practicality. It&#8217;s how Oregon guzzles gas and gets around.
Imagine Oregon as a 3 by 5 card. Interstate 5 runs like a vertical margin  up and down the card, about an inch from the lefthand side. It connects Portland at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Brautigan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 22:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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   Almost no one knows that the poet Richard Brautigan grew up in Oregon. Before he moved to San Francisco and became the nationally known author of such works as &#8220;In Watermelon Sugar&#8221; and &#8220;Trout Fishing in America,&#8221; Brautigan grew up with a blue collar mother in Eugene and graduated from Eugene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Californians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Years ago, having            just arrived in the Northwest from California, we were doing 56 in a            55 one day when an Idaho cop pulled us over for a little chat. We didn&#8217;t  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to dress like an Oregonian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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         Finding the            right gate for the flight home to Eugene            or Portland is always a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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                          The first year            in Oregon, you love the rain. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to say &#8220;Oregon&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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                          It&#8217;s &#8220;OAR-rih-gun.&#8221; Pure and simple. Say it any other way &#8212; like &#8220;ORE-gahwn,&#8221; perhaps &#8212; and you brand yourself as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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                          Oregon isn&#8217;t            actually a foreign country, so there isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Architecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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         A few examples of Oregon              architecture to see and enjoy while you&#8217;re here:       
Wayne     [...]]]></description>
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